The best of McSweeney's
Title:
The best of McSweeney's
Author:
Eggers, Dave, editor.
Publication Information:
San Francisco : McSweeney's, [2013]
Physical Description:
624 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates (folded) : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Summary:
"A comprehensive collection of some of the magazine's most remarkable work."--Back of jacket.
General Note:
Anthology of fiction and nonfiction.
Selections originally published in McSweeney's quarterly, 1998-2013.
Includes index.
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction / Letters from Mike Sacks [and fifteen others] -- Ceiling / New boy / Statistical abstract for my hometown, Spokane, Washington / Phantoms / Do not disturb / from the Introduction to McSweeney's 13 / from Optic Nerve no. 9 / Darlington Sundays / We'll sleep in my old room / Fixer / A child's book of sickness and death / They all stand up and sing / Oral history with hiccups ; A mown lawn / from the introduction to McSweeney's 10 / Bees / Retreat ; Retreat #2 / Mr. Squishy / Gentlemen, start your engines / Can a paper mill save a forest? / Girl with bangs / Bored to death / There is no time in Waterloo / Double zero / K is for fake / Further interpretations of real-life events / Fire : the next sharp stick? / Benjamin Bucks / Unwritten stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald : introduction / Peasley / Girl and giraffe / Stay where you are / Hot pink / Four institutional monologues / How to sell / Fathers and daughters / (Notes from the Middle World) / Two by two / Bastard / S&J / New, abridged dictionary of accepted ideas / Twenty-minute stories / Pantoums
Added Corporate Author:
Added Uniform Title:
McSweeney's (Series)
ISBN:
9781938073595
9781938073601
Format :
Book
